A Simple Explanation of A Spectral Algorithm for Learning Hidden Markov Models
Methodology
2012-04-12 v1 Machine Learning
Machine Learning
Abstract
A simple linear algebraic explanation of the algorithm in "A Spectral Algorithm for Learning Hidden Markov Models" (COLT 2009). Most of the content is in Figure 2; the text just makes everything precise in four nearly-trivial claims.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.2477,
title = {A Simple Explanation of A Spectral Algorithm for Learning Hidden Markov Models},
author = {Matthew James Johnson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2477},
year = {2012}
}